{"title":"Star Moles","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"camelot-2","title":"Camelot","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust out of high school, feeling stuck in a wasted gap year in her New Hampshire hometown before heading to college, Emily Moales found herself in serious need of an escape - Looking around at her rural New England surroundings, the multi-instrumentalist began blurring the lush greenery of reality with that of Medieval Britain.   \"I'm perpetually reading TH White's The Once and Future King. I'll pick it back up again every few months, and it will always resonate with what's going on in my life,\" Moales explains. Infusing imagery from the epic tale of King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere into intensely personal songwriting, Moales found that escape in creating the sublime Camelot. First released digitally in 2018 and now getting its first physical issue via Earth Libraries on TK, the record is a sterling statement of the New Hampshirite's work as Star Moles and her ability to craft timeless yet eternally present bedroom pop gems.    Though she first envisioned Camelot as a way to escape her reality, the record equally provided a way to address it head on. As a prime example, album highlight \"Not My Heart\" takes a tale of unrequited love on a Casiotone waltz before bursting into a classic AM pop jangle, the imagery of Camelot swirling through the mix like a fluttering banner. Moales' bronzed vocals sit front and center on the track and album at large, surrounded by a robust instrumental tapestry--though much like the album cover's blend of Medieval font and shag carpeting, every bit of regal clarity is matched with warmly retro tones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Earth Libraries","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50468104470859,"sku":"2016595","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_9dc3f09e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727345065"},{"product_id":"snack-monster","title":"Snack Monster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter a few years of boring, therapized love songs in the pop sphere idealizing romance between individuals who have “worked on themselves” and reached a state of mental, spiritual, physical, and financial wellness (read: purity) I was just so moved by this concept of complicated and messy romance as art. The name Snack Monster was a working title of unknown origin that just stuck. But it’s fitting, since these songs are about love in morsels, craved and devoured and driving you insane. In my past collaborations with Kevin Basko (aka Rubber Band Gun), we have recorded to analog tape using a reel-to-reel. On Three Chimes, At Silent Palace!, the record prior to Snack Monster, we recorded to tape then layered extensively on top of this digitally. Three Chimes was made deep into the Covid-19 pandemic, and it’s the most lush thing I’ve ever made. It’s cinematic and sprawling and Kate Bush-esque. \u003cem\u003eSnack Monster\u003c\/em\u003e was a departure and an escape. We made it at Kevin’s childhood home in New Jersey in late summer 2022, and some in summer 2023. The core tracks of acoustic guitar and vocal were recorded to cassette using a Tascam 234, and for the most part we tried to keep additional layering very grounded. There’s no synthesizer which is a new thing for Star Moles. I like how my voice sounds on this record. Since I’m singing and accompanying myself on a nylon string guitar, rather than adding a vocal track over an instrumental, it’s an honest and vulnerable kind of performance. The guitar and vocal define each other and can’t exist separately—basically the songs are codependent. RIYL: Weyes Blood, Kate Bollinger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Earth Libraries","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":52946224677195,"sku":"R0766-1585","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/201375058842.jpg?v=1752850838"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/star-moles-2.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}